Is There An Unofficial Sequel To STREETS OF FIRE On The Way?

Or is someone just making the ultimate Walter Hill tribute film?
I can't say that I'm terribly interested in a STREETS OF FIRE 2 absent the integral contributions of Hill, Larry Gross, Ry Cooder and Jim Steinman, but I am tickled by the notion of the film industry's Schlockmeister General, Albert Pyun, attempting to cash in on largely forgotten box office bomb from the mid-80s.
Mind you, it's just a notion. Judging from the plot summary submitted to us by reader "Clyde the Bartender", there's no overt reason to believe this is a continuation of Hill's criminally underappreciated "rock and roll fable". Here's the gist:

A soldier who has been fighting a long war is driven mad because he no longer believes in any purpose or righteous truth behind the killing. He comes home to a surreal world looking for his first and only love from his youth, believing she will rescue him from his demons. On the road to Edge City he encounters two seductive spree killers who oppose his efforts to find his love and the redemption he desperately seeks.

Nothing doing, right? Well, here's where it gets weird. The soldier's name is "Cody", and he's being played by Michael Paré. You also have Deborah Van Valkenburgh cast as "Sister" - which is intriguing since she had a brief supporting turn as Tom Cody's sis in STREETS OF FIRE. There's even a female character known as "McCoy", which was the handle of Amy Madigan's tough-as-nails sidekick in Hill's flick. And, yes, there's even a brunette chick named Ellen (though she doesn't appear to be the "first and only love" from Cody's youth).
I realize this isn't earth-shattering stuff for 99% of our readership, but I though it was worth passing along to the the twenty or thirty of you who have "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" and "Nowhere Fast" on your iTunes. Could this all just be an avalanche of coincidences? Possible, but I doubt it. Whatever it is, I'd much rather have a new Walter Hill movie than an Albert Pyun-directed retread.
Thanks again to "Clyde the Bartender" for sussing all of this out.
Faithfully submitted,
Mr. Beaks

...was the love triangle between Michael Pare', Diane Lane,...and of all people, Rick Moranis??? They played it so serious, but it was so funny, I couldnt stop laughing. A great misfire from John Carpenter.

One of those great nostalgic films you kind of hesitate to revisit for fear that it wasn't as badass as you remember it. I really would love one more outing of Walter Hill up all night in a surreal city. Great stuff.

But after the huge success of the other 80s rip off Lost Boys 2(over 100000 downloads in the torrent-network), we cant wait for this one!!
Most famous tune of this movie. I can dream bout you Dan Hartman. Almost forgot that one!! Here it is
www.youtube.com/w atch?v=p6yS4vMdKjU

One of my all-time favorites! I even own the original poster, framed. Such a great, weird, 50s/80s hybrid. Gotta love the fact that nobody in the film is capable of delivering a line without trying to make it as hard-boiled as possible.
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These are truly awesome times if we get sequels to Tron, The Sword and the Sorceror as well as Streets of motherfuckin' Fire!

Micheal Pare should get some of the same love around here usualy reserved for Bruce Campbell or Lance Hendricksen....he's just bad ass in that movie. I want to thank Walter Hill for Last Man Standing, he should have written and directed The Punisher.

One of those crazy 80's movies I doubt they would make these days. I must have watched it about a dozen times as a kid on VHS. It starts out as a fairly simple action movie, but then William Defoe shows up in patent leather fishing waders and movie becomes steadily more surreal and bizarre until it culamates in a duel between Dafoe and Pare beating the shit out of each other with 20 pound sledgehammers. <p>
As the old saying goes, they don't make em like this anymore =) <p>
I don't know about a sequel but I feel the urge to watch the original again.

<p>I'm unclear 'bout what this SOF thing is supposed to be. Sorry.</p>
<p>How's about if the script includes a hip-hop character scared of his own shadow? Oh, wait, the theme is opposites of existing/known personas, right? Never mind.</p>

This movie actually holds up when you watch it, which I did a few months back when it was on some cable channel. You just have to "go" with the world they created. Its too bad that they couldn't have outed Amy Madigan's character and made her hot, it was the mid-1980's. But its a fun romp down nostalgia lane.

SAY A PRAYER IN THE DARKNESS FOR THE MAGIC TO COME, NO MATTER WHAT IT SEEMS TONIGHT IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE YOUNG!<br><br>
I went to a midnight screening of this movie a few months ago and it was simply amazing. Hearing that song booming in a big ol' movie theater was pure bliss. Steinman loves horror, maybe he knows of Pyun and will give him a song or two for the hell of it.

This brings back memories. I saw this twice in the theater and bought the cassette tape. Great music, good action, incredible sets, bad acting. I ,oved it. Here's hoping that the next one will be as good, be it a sequel or a reboot.

but, yeah, must have missed this one as it doesn't ring a bell at all.
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Just watched the trailer. Now I know why I have no recollection of it. Same reason people repress memories of their creep uncle molesting them when they were younger.

If you loved the film in the past it still has that crazy hypnotic "you will like this for some undefined reason" appeal to it. It's still one of my favorites. It's too bad that Michael Pare's career never really took off like it should have. See this and The Philadelphia Experiment. Both Pare' movies and both time capsules of fun.

....great music, amazing visuals and while the acting could be better, it was a lot of fun and gets regular spins on my dvd player. Diane Lane never looked hotter than on stage in the first musical number just before she gets abducted - and Michael Pare was great in this and Philadelphia Experiment. Shame he did so much shit after. This was a great film, with a great look and a great feel. Love every second of it. Pure, wonderful cheese. I'm kind of glad they never made The Far City and Cody's Return due to the fact they probably would have been pretty bad.....but I kind of wish they had made them too. Not sure an 'unofficial sequel' even with half the original cast will be a good idea, but hey - we'll still have the original anyway so what's to lose?

Punkabilly is a new one on me. They were/are no such thing. No offense, but they aren't. They play straight up RnR, blues, rockabilly, swamp rock, boogie woogie and just about every other American Music out there.

"I Can Dream About You... making a bizarre rock and roll fantasy adventure return to the screen." Ridiculous. Why can't they leave the classics alone? First, PSYCHO, then THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, now this? I say, "No Dafoe in latex overalls, no movie." And good luck getting Moranis back, he wouldn't even lend his voice to a Ghostbusters video game!

<p>. . . About You." A tune heard many a time, driving in the car, on my way to the dentist. Thanks Dan Hartman -- I've Pavlov'd a great tune with cleaning, drilling, capping . . . what else.</p>
<p>And bring back Stoney Jackson. Whatever they do, they best bring back Stoney Jackson for this motha'.</P>

Yeah it was gonna be a trilogy, and I really wish Hill could've done it. Walter Hill's "Street Operas" are some of my favorite movies.
So yeah, no Tom Cody, no Walter Hill, no Rick Moranis or Willem Dafoe, the original fans aren't gonna give a shit. That this sounds like typical straight to DVD, completely unrelated "The Butterfly Effect 2" bullshit doesn't help matters, either.

The original theme track would've been, of course, Streets of Fire, but Springsteen didn't want to do it when he found out someone else would be singing the song.
I'd have said fuck it, replace the lead singer chick with Springsteen and make it a gay action movie. Would've been groundbreaking.

...but Michael Pare is the weak link. In the words of some other internet commenter whom I can't recall, couldn't they have gotten some one who didn't, y'know... suck?
Seriously. Moon 44? Philadelphia Experiment? Houston Knights? The man is a bad, bad actor, no matter how nostalgically we remember his work.

I love "SOF". Saw it in the theatre opening night, June 1, 1984 when it opened the same day as, I believe, "Search for Spock". Sadly, the film with its odd "looks like the 50's, sounds like the 80's" vibe just didn't catch on. Deride it all you like, but once you see it, you have to admit, there has never been anything like it. How they managed to mix film noir, and that eighties "blue light" look has always impressed me. I would more than welcome "SOF 2" but that seems about as likely as a sequel to "Ford Fairlane" dontcha think? Thanks for posting this Beaks.

2 seconds of research later...whatever this is, it sure looks like "Streets of Fire". Fans of the movie will recognize the costumes and, oh yeah, the fact that "SOF" is mentioned in the first paragraph:
http://www.roadtohellmovie.com/behind_the_scenes

I ALWAYS loved this underappreciated gem of a movie. If you ever wondered what one of Meatloaf's classic tunes would look like if it came alive and jumped on the big screen, then this is it. Amazing visuals, story and soundtrack.

STREETS OF FIRE was stylish and moody, with a fantastic soundtrack. It had the coolest anti-hero since Snake Plissken and pitted him against the psychotic biker of Willem Dafoe, who was scary just to look at. It wasn't a crime film so much as a Western, set in a grim city pulsing with rock 'n roll. One of Walter Hill's very best movies. I'd be interested in a sequel if he was back to direct it.

uhhh..."road rage was never so bloody.." what???? "believe in your demons"??? wtf?????
"A serial killer stuck in the middle of nowhere.."???? WTF???!!!!!
Tom Cody is a serial killer in this sequel???? Prepare for some more of our childhood to get raped!

If you wonder why you're stuck in the straight to DVD market, it's because your movies are morally repulsive with unsympathetic main characters that only a deranged pervert could relate to. There's a world of difference between the dark satire of Natural Born Killers and the cheap sickness of straight to video murder-porn nonsense.

Gota say SoF is on my top 5 guilty pleasures. This movie has its moments that, I gota say are with me forever. It stated my love for Diane Lane which has lasted to this day. It's great to see many see what this film is and was and could have been...
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not sure it needs revisiting 25 years later, mind you, but I'll go back and rewatch the original. While I'm at it, may dig out my VHS copy of TROUBLE IN MIND as well, for full-on 80s cult future noir enjoyment

...Gotcha, Tuff Turf,Red Dawn, The Wanderers, The Warriors and Lost Boys were the kind of flicks that got me through my early teens. Don't get me wrong, there's as much bad shit in that list as good (the good kind of bad), but Damn I miss the 80's.

I just looked at those behind the scenes shots. Cody is wearing the same duds and there's even a woman called "Ellen" wearing a slinky red dress and sporting Diane Lane's hairdo.
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Don't know what to make of this at all...

As much as I love this movie and am even a little excited about the prospect of a sequel, I still to this day can't get my head around Mykelti Williamson, Robert Townsend, Grand L. Bush and the other guy grooving on down to 'Tonight is What It Means To Be Young'. It's, like, so un-Sorrells.

The best thing about Streets of Fire was the poster snd the Steinman songs - awesome.
The movie was awful - like Mad Max meets Rocky Horror with a cast from the local KFC. Diane Lane looked suicidal in it - she was awesome in Hollywoodland though.

Best tagline EVER.<p>Man, I used to love me some Walter Hill: Southern Comfort, The Warriors, 48 HRS, Johnny Handsome, The Driver, Hard Times, The Long Riders, Last Man Standing...<p>I honestly don't think I've watched ANY MOVIE as much as I have Streets of Fire. Not even The Empire Strikes Back!

She's incredibly sexy in Streets of Fire. Great lip-synch work too.<p>As a teen, during the mid 80s, I used to watch Diane in my Outsiders, Rumble Fish and Streets of Fire videotapes over and over again!

Is it "Let the revels begin" or "Let the rebels begin"? Google is sort of divided between the two. It makes more sense with revels IMO, but on the other side, I sung this in a karaoke-room in Tokyo, and there it was "rebels". Not that the Japanese are masters of the English language...

Always loved that line from the theatrical trailer.<p>Universal was pretty damn sure Streets of Fire was going to be one of the big Summer hits of 1984. <br>It's a terrific looking film that deserves the same Cult Movie status as stuff like The Warriors and Escape From New York. It's a shame too many snobs dismiss it as "dumb"

...it wasn't so bad. I've always liked those "slightly alternate universe" sort of films. Another one from the 80's I can think of right offhand was Trouble In Mind with Kris Kristofferson as a private eye in "Rain City" which is sort of like Seattle but everyone speaks a patois of English and Korean and the streets are patrolled by Soviet militias from the 1930's. Real obscure movie and you can't even get it on DVD, or so I hear.

I always thought this movie was an 80s gem that got completely overlooked. I was hoping that by the time I was big in hollywood I could remake it into a musical featuring the same soundtrack. either that or put it on broadway However, a new sequel will destroy my dreams.
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Actually Streets of Fire is Streets of Rage the movie - indirectly.
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Streets of Fire heavily influenced the beat-em-up Final Fight (even down to the main character's name being Cody), which Streets of Rage basically ripped off (in an excellent way, of course).